The Dame, 156 W. Main Street, is Lexington's best and most exciting music venue. The Dame has live music six nights a week, of all genres, plus special events like the Lexington Mardi Gras celebration and the Until the Violence Stops: Kentucky festival, charity events, tributes, comedy and improv theater, exclusive film screenings, open mic nights, and more!
Since opening in April of 2003, the Dame has hosted such eclectic acts as, in no particular order, Guided By Voices, The Arcade Fire, Neko Case, Mogwai, Blackalicious, Frank Black, Animal Collective, RJD2, Band of Horses, Fruit Bats, Dalek, Iron and Wine, Scissor Sisters, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, The Juan MacLean, Rahzel, Camper Van Beethoven, the Pharcyde, Dosh, Gillian Welch, Of Montreal, Rogue Wave, De La Soul, X, Elf Power, Dressy Bessy, Dar Williams, the 22-20s, Carlos D, De Novo Dahl, Clem Snide, Jucifer, Forget Cassettes, Burnt Sugar, Man Man, Burning Brides, The Wailers, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeny, Stars, the Zombies, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Essex Green, The Black Keys, VHS or Beta, the Features, Los Lonely Boys, Busdriver, Umphrey's McGee, Hasil Adkins, Jenny Toomey, My Brightest Diamond, Brian Auger, Lucero, Murder By Death, Dieselboy, Tony Conrad, Apples in Stereo, Hank III, Blue Cheer, Jolie Holland, North Mississippi All Stars, Devotchka, Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, Alejandro Escovedo, the Heartless Bastards, Voodoo Organist, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Hedrons, Robert Earl Keen, Tommie Sunshine, Iswhat?!, Sun Ra Arkestra, Electric Eel Shock, C-Rayz Walz, Kaki King, Dierks Bently, Michael Tolcher, Devin the Dude, Rodney Crowell, New Model Army, The Sleepy Jackson, Califone, Michelle Shocked, Richard Buckner, Particle, Robert Randolph, Slightly Stoopid, The Detroit Cobras, Kathleen Edwards, Burning Spear, Dark Star Orchestra, the Impossible Shapes, The Queers, Scissors For Lefty, Buddy Miller, Chuck Prophet, Asylum Street Spankers, The National, Goose Creek Symphony, Little Brother, Rickie Lee Jones, Amy Ray, Tommy Stinson, Duwayne Burnside, Pernice Brothers, US Maple, The Sadies, Marc Broussard, Hair Police, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Sam Bush, Quintron & Ms. Pussycat, Freakwater, Son Volt, Edith Frost, Papa M, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Tom Tom Club, Shooter Jennings, John Hammond, Hamid Drake, The High Water Marks, Los Straitjackets, The Octopus Project, Drive By Truckers, Karl Denson, Wesley Willis, Revered Horton Heat, Charlie Hunter, Nappy Roots, Over the Rhine, KRS-One, Old Crow Medicine Show, Jabali Afrika, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Pete Best, Brother Danielson, Ming + FS, Souls of Mischief, Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Don Caballero, Rasputina, the Suicide Girls, Battles, Do Make Say Think, DJ Spooky, and every local and regional artist worth seeing!
Fyi, The Dame is first and foremost a bar and can therefore only allow those folks 21+ through our doors.
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